come to a halt

"You'd better stop here, " he said, though she had already come to a halt at the first corner, "and take the next car. "

I found myself walking to the car, which had come to a halt a few feet from the Stop & Shop building.

The company had come to a halt, more sober men, as you may guess, than when they started.

If the flow of fossil fuels to the United States were ever cut off, the economy would come to a halt.

Today, Mumbai will come to a halt as it marks the anniversary with a day of prayer and commemoration for those who died.

It is so far proving more resilient to the global financial crisis than Spain, where a decade-long boom has come to a halt.

Yes, they carry so much of the internet traffic that the internet would come to a halt.

Let's now make sure that this crazy object has come to a halt.

Already the wave of nationalisations that began shortly after the last presidential election has come to a halt.

If all the drivers behaved the same way, then traffic would not come to a halt.

Recently, though, freedom's progress may have come to a halt, or even gone into reverse.

With the modification, large numbers of pedestrians were induced to come to a halt, crowd together and peer upward.

When these hard limits are reached, the entire queue manager and all connected applications come to a halt.

Exports of soy meal have come to a halt over the past few months on low availability, according to Aggarwal.

So government programmes might come to a halt, while tax uncertainties would harm investment.

Since our production of radios come to a halt, we have switched to the production of mobile phones.

If the annual budget is not passed, public services could come to a halt.

Legalization of heroin has been rejected on the grounds that progress and civilization would come to a halt.

Even as growth in emerging markets has come to a halt, the rich economies look set to shrink.

There is plenty of ice on Mars, but the chemical reactions for life come to a halt when water freezes.

Secretary Paulson says this market has basically come to a halt.

They come to a halt in front of a gate, beside which is a sign that reads 'Someplace Else'.

Whenever something is moving, it will come to a halt.

Work has to come to a halt when the machine goes wrong.

I will start when I come to a halt here.

Does this mean the exponential rise in computer processing speed will come to a halt in ten years?

To cease moving, progressing, acting, or operating; come to a halt: